Joan Larkin

Author's Bio

Joan Larkin’s most recent book, My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 2007), received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Her previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of a Lambda Award. Larkin lives in Brooklyn and currently teaches in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 2007), Cold River (Painted Leaf Press, 1997), Sor Juana's Love Poems (Painted Leaf Press, 1997), A Long Sound (Granite Press, 1986), Housework (Out & Out, 1975)

Anthologies:

Love Speaks Its Name (Everyman, 2001), The World in Us (St. Martins Press, 2000), Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (St. Martin's Press, 1988)

Journals:

5 A.M., American Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Global City Review, Hanging Loose, Margie, Poetry International, Washington Square

Prizes:

In 2011, Larkin received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship and the Shelley Memorial Award. Previous honors include fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others.

Joan Larkin Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Then, We Were Still Living by Michael Klein, What I Can't Bear Losing by Gerald Stern, Imago by Joseph Legaspi, Collected Poems by Patricia Dobler, Red Sugar by Jan Beatty

Favorite Books:

American Sonnets, by Gerald Stern; Inferno, by Eileen Myles; Eye of the Blackbird by Mary Ann McFadden; Eva Mary, by Linda McCarriston; Little Boat, by Jean Valentine; She Heads Into the Wilderness, by Anne Marie Macari; Reactor, by Judith Vollmer; Astoria, by Malena Morling; The Usable Field, by Jane Mead; Blackbird and Wolf, by Henri Cole; The Descent of Alette,by Alice Notley

Favorite Authors:

Dickinson, Whitman, Keats, Hopkins, Blake, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, May Swenson, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, Philip Levine, Edward Field, Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn. I need a big suitcase for the desert island.

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Listing last updated: December 5, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Feminist, G/L/B/T

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Boston, MA

Raised in:

Boston, MA

Agent:

Frances Goldin